BRADENTON, Fla. -- The beauty of the pitchers and catchers portion of spring training is getting to reconnect with pitchers, see what their offseason focus was and, if applicable, find out if they're throwing a new pitch.
The downside is there isn't any feedback yet to see if what they worked on will work.
We're still in the experimental portion of spring training, so we are without raw data, ample video and results, which means all there is to pull from for the first Mound Visit of the year conversations. Those conversations often lead to the best content, and we can either fall back on 2022 data to see how what they said applies to their reworked pitches or take a stab at projecting the future.